AI Daily Newsletter: John Jumper joins Anthropic and the 4 billion USD Modular deal
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π‘ OpenAI Launches Its First Custom AI Chip
OpenAI has officially announced its first custom AI chip, designed in collaboration with Broadcom. Codenamed “JalapeΓ±o”, this chip is optimized for inference, promising to reduce dependence on Nvidia and optimize operating costs. This strategic move helps OpenAI compete with Google (TPU) and Amazon (Trainium) in the custom AI chip race.
Source: TechCrunch β OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
π US Government Restricts Anthropic Fable 5 Due to Security Concerns
Claude Fable 5 β the new AI model from Anthropic’s Mythos line β has been restricted by the Trump administration just three days after its release due to national security concerns. Despite being “braked” abruptly, Fable 5 has made a strong impression with its exceptional abilities in programming games, writing novels, and coordinating multimedia content production, surpassing previous models.
Source: Yahoo News Japan / ASCII β γγγ3ζ₯γ§εζ’γγγζ°AIγClaude Fable 5γ
π John Jumper (Nobel AlphaFold) Leaves DeepMind, Joins Anthropic
John Jumper β the creator of AlphaFold, a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2024 β has left Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. This is one of the most notable AI talent acquisitions of the year, indicating the escalating battle for AI talent among major labs.
Source: TechCrunch β AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
π° Qualcomm Acquires Modular for $4 Billion
Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Modular β an AI software startup founded by former Google engineers β for approximately $4 billion in stock. Modular owns a middleware platform that enables running AI models on any chip, directly competing with Nvidia’s CUDA. This is Qualcomm’s largest move in its AI data center strategy.
Source: Reuters β Qualcomm to buy startup Modular for $4 billion in AI software push
πΌοΈ Krea 2: Open-Weights 12B Image Model Surpasses FLUX.2
Krea has released the open-source Krea 2, a 12 billion parameter model that outperforms FLUX.2 on the Design Arena leaderboard. Both Raw and Turbo versions are available on Hugging Face, supporting ComfyUI from day one, and can run locally on a 12GB VRAM GPU.